Part Time Bus Driver
Title of Position: Mini Bus Driver (CE Scheme Placement)
Duties:
· Assist the passengers onto the bus
· Strap the wheelchair users in for the journey and ensure all other passengers are using safety belts
· Assist the passengers to leave the bus when their destination is reached
Vacancy Location: Galway City and surrounding areas
Application Arrangements: Apply by sending CV to the above Email address or postal address or Fax only
Gareth Bradshaw
091-773910
E-Mail: mail@gcil.ie
Fax: 091-773919
Proposed Start Date: Early January 2012
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Saturday December 3rd at 1 pm.
Shop St. Galway, outside Brown Thomas, beside the Oscar Wilde statue.
There will be a Public Awareness Speak out, TO END EXCLUSION, highlighting and demonstrating the obstacles that people with disabilities, particularly the visually impaired and the wheelchair users, have to encounter every day in Galway – pavement kerbs, potholes, cobble-stones, access to public toilets, access to buses , access to legal parking spaces and many more.
December 3rd is the International Day of Persons with Disability, a global call for practical action to make a better world for all; where speakers in many different countries will tell the stories of their good and bad experiences and their struggles to end exclusion and their demands for effective change. Wheelchair users, others with disability, relatives and carers will make their voices heard, an historic occasion for the spoken word and effective action.
People with disabilities make up an estimated 15 % of the world’s population. Almost one fifth of the global total of persons living with disabilities encounter significant difficulties, while a quarter of the world’s population is directly affected by disability, as carers or family members. There are thousands affected in Galway alone.
Come along and tell your story to END EXCLUSION.
Organised by:
Welcome to our World Productions
Access for All - Galway City Partnership
Galway Centre for Independent Living
Contact; John Arden & Margaretta D’Arcy 091 565430
Laurie Allen 0876736984
Launch of Galway Centre for Independent Living’s Leader Forum
We are delighted to announce that the official Launch of Galway Centre for Independent Living’s Leader Forum will take place 11am-1pm on 25th November 2011.
Mayor of Galway City, Cllr Hildegarde Naughton will launch our Leader Forum in conjunction with Galway City Council’s Launch of National Accessibility Week.
This event will take place in the Council Chambers, Galway City Hall and includes keynote speakers from the Galway Leader Forum and CIL’s National Leader Forum. All are welcome.
Light refreshments will be available.
The main purpose of the Galway Leader Forum is to bring people with disabilities together in a shared positive space and advocate for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
If you are interested in joining or learning more about the Leader Forum, this will be a good opportunity to meet with members and find out what they have planned for 2012.
The Galway Centre for Independent Living’s Leader Forum will exhibit pieces from their recent Art Exhibition titled ‘Tá muid in ann’, in Galway City Hall from 24th November to 2nd December.
In addition, music and poetry is available on audio at www.gcil.ie. All artists involved are local people with disabilities. The exhibition celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities held annually on 3rd December.
For further information, please contact Helena on 091773910 or email quality@gcil.ie
Connacht Rugby Home Game Ticket Winners
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So far this season the following Galway Centre for Independent Living members have won the use of our season tickets as follows: Connacht Vs Exeter Chiefs, 5.30pm Sat 13th Aug - Dubarry Park , Athlone |
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Marian Greene Sally Fahy
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Connacht Vs Scarlets, 3.15pm Sat 10th September 2011 |
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John Conneely |
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Kathleen Cunningham |
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Connacht Vs Dragons, 7.30pm Friday 23th September 2011 |
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Marian Greene |
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Sally Fahy |
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Connacht Vs Cardiff Blues, 6.00pm Saturday 29th October 2011 |
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John Dillon |
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Connacht Vs Toulouse, 6.00pm Saturday 19th November 2011 |
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Kathleen Cunningham |
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Interested in enjoying Lovely Leitrim’s Lakes ?
Leitrim Association for People with Disabilities have launched an accessible boat for People with Disabilities.
The Wheelyboat is a specially designed accessible boat, built to meet the needs of people with disabilities, to have access to lakes and partake in fishing, angling or just pleasure trips on the lakes.
The Wheelyboat was designed by the Wheelyboat Trust. Wheelyboats provide their disabled users with the dignity of their own independence: they make the entire water accessible, are simplicity itself to board via the roll-on, roll-off bow ramp and the level deck provides access to every corner of the boat including the helm. The boat will support disabled people with the opportunity and freedom to enjoy the lakes of Leitrim.
Leitrim Association for People with Disabilities have extended an invitation to members of Galway Centre for Independent Living to come and enjoy this new resource. If interested please contact the Galway Centre for Independent Living office on 091 773910.
We wish Leitrim Association for People with Disabilities well with their new venture.
NUIG launches Disability Legal Information Drop In Clinic
Ref: NUIG Website
The drop-in clinic will be staffed by law student volunteers and supervised by legal practitioners and Centre for Disability Law and Policy staff. Sessions will be held in the Centre for Disability Law and Policy boardroom. The clinic will run once a month and will be held on the first Wednesday of each month from 6pm-7.30pm. The first clinic session will be held on 5 October 2011. A legal practitioner and a Centre for Disability Law and Policy staff member will supervise all clinic sessions.
Volunteers at the clinic are students and not legal practitioners, and therefore cannot provide legal advice, simply information on how to address legal issues facing people with disabilities. Anyone requiring legal advice will have to consult a solicitor separately.
For details on who should attend the clinic, confidentiality, accessibility and other information, please see the clinic’s policy document.
Public Consultation on the Department of Transport’s Sectoral Plan under the Disability Act, 2005
Ref: Disability Federation of Ireland website
The Department of Transport is calling for submissions in regard to the public consultation on the Department’s Sectoral Plan under the Disability Act, 2005.
The Department’s Sectoral Plan under the Disability Act 2005 titled “Transport Access for All” is currently being reviewed. It was last published in 2009.
In anticipation of this consultation, DFI has been active in consulting with people with disabilities in preparation for DFI’s submission to the Department. If you or your organisation would like to contribute to DFI’s submission, please contact, Martin Naughton, DFI Support Officer by email – martinnaughton@disability-federation.ie or by phone on 01- 45 47978 or 086-8270196.
For those who wish to make a submission directly to the Department of Transport, please see the Department of Transport website here: www.dttas.ie/publictransport/sectoral-plan-review.aspx and submissions can be emailed to accessibility@dttas.ie.
The current plan is available from the Department’s website and is also available by request in paper copies, together with Braille, Easy Read and Audio formats.
If you would like any further information, please feel free to contact Martin Naughton on 086-8207196 or your local Support Officer.
The Closing Date for receipt of comments to the Department of Transport is 23rd September 2011.
Upcoming Events:
Event for Social Inclusion Week:
‘Tá muid in ann!’
!7th-23rd October – Art Exhibition displaying Leaders’ work in Galway City Library.
Opening Reception - 5.30-6.30pm Tuesday 18th October. The Exhibition will be officially opened by Mayor of Galway City, Cllr Hildegarde Naughton.
Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities:
28th November – 2nd December – Art Exhibition of Leaders’ work in Galway City Hall. More details to follow.
Learning Disability crime studied
ref: Irish Times Tuesday 23rd August 2011
People with learning disabilities are reluctant to involve the police in cases of bullying and harassment, a report has said.
Acceptance of this type of crime needs to be addressed, research by the Policing Board and Police Ombudsman’s office added.
The study suggested that people with learning disabilities generally held positive opinions of police.
Ombudsman Al Hutchinson said: “Many people with learning difficulties suffer bullying and harassment, but all too often they suffer in silence. This report is about helping to ensure that disability hate crime is reported and that the best procedures are in place for combating it.
“It is also about ensuring that people with learning disabilities are treated at all times with dignity, fairness, equality and respect.”
Full Article on see The Independent website
www.independent.ie
Household Benefits Package Cuts
Ref: Disability Federation of Ireland
Labour Party’s Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, recently announced a number of social welfare cuts.
The means-tested Fuel Allowance which is paid weekly during the winter is being cut from €23.90 to €20 (or 16%) in smokeless fuel zones.
The Household Benefits Package provides a range of fuel allowance options for state pensioners, some carers and people with disabilities. The Electricity Allowance is being cut from 2400 to 1800 units a year (a cut of 25%), the Electricity (Group Account) Allowance is being cut from €43.80 to €35.80 per month (a cut of 18%), the annual value of the Gas Allowance is being cut from €489 to €393 (a cut of 20%), the bottled Gas Refill Allowance is being cut from €40.70 to €32.70 (a cut of 20%).
To view the full story please go to www.disability-federation.ie